Course Title: Community Preparedness, Recovery and Resilience
Background: Explore disaster management and how communities can build resilience and cope after a disaster.
Course Institution: Coventry University, United Kingdom.
This course is part of the program Community Preparedness, Recovery and Resilience, which is one of the building blocks that leads to degrees in MSc Emergency Management and Resilience and MSc Disaster Management and Resilience.
Course duration: 2 weeks
What topics will you cover?
- Disaster trends and their impact on community resilience
- Factors that contribute to the perception of vulnerability
- The capacity for communities to cope with disaster
- Different approaches for building community resilience
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
- Assess vulnerability in the local context and its external influencing factors
- Explore community capacities for coping with risks and disasters
- Assess the relationship between community vulnerability, capacity and resilience
- Identify the skills and attributes required by practitioners working with communities to enhance resilience
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for anyone looking to understand the impacts of disasters and how a community resilience approach is implemented.
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